Shreveport-Bossier City named second fastest-shrinking big city in America
A new survey conducted by 24/7 Wall St. reviewed population data from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2022 American Community Survey one-year estimates. The publication listed all 43 metropolitan statistical areas with at least a 3% population decline from 2017 to 2022, from the smallest to the largest decline.
Shreveport-Bossier City ranked #2 — just behind Kalamazoo-Portage, Michigan, which lost a fifth of its residents.
The report noted a 2017-2022 Shreveport-Bossier City population change of -12.65% (-55,779) with a 2022 population of 385,154.
Other cities in the top ten list of fastest-shrinking cities were:
3. Fort Smith, Arkansas
4. Grand Island, Nebraska
5. Sioux City, Iowa
6. Chico, California
7. Panama City, Florida\
8. Bloomington, Illinois
9. Blacksburg-Christiansburg, Virginia
10. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
The U.S. population as a whole has been "growing at a historically slow pace in the past decade," the report says. The Census projects the population will begin to decline sometime in th…
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